Depression Poses Pregnancy Risks
...of birth defects. Other reports have found that babies born to women who are taking a type of antidepressant known as an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) could have breathing or feeding problems, according to the March of Dimes. The bulletin recommends that treatment with antidepressants b...Celexa May Not Help Kids With Autism
...ic neurologist and director of medical autism research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. Antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, are a common treatment for autism and given to perhaps 30 percent of children with the condition, said Dr. Bryan King, lead auth...Depression Treatment Wanes Following FDA Warnings
...alysis finds. Researchers at the University of Colorado say the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's advisories about the use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) appear to be associated with "unintended" and "persistent" changes in the diagnosis and treatment of depression, especially in chil...Some Antidepressants May Thwart Tamoxifen's Effect on Breast Cancer
...g tamoxifen to reduce their odds for recurrence. But tamoxifen often causes hot flashes, a side effect that can be controlled with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants such as paroxetine (Paxil) or fluoxetine (Prozac). Besides working on the neurotransmitter serotonin, these drugs inh...Popular Breast Cancer Drug Used with Certain Antidepressants Puts New Jersey Women at Risk
...ol of Medicine released a study revealing that women using tamoxifen to prevent a recurrence of breast cancer who also use certain selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI), for example Prozac(R) (fluoxetine), Paxil(R) (paroxetine) and Zoloft(R) (sertraline), have up to twice the chance of having a recur...FDA Approves Tapentadol Immediate-Release Tablets for Relief of Moderate to Severe Acute Pain
...chanisms of action, combining mu-opioid receptor agonism and norepinephrine reuptake inhibition. Tapentadol tablets have been approved in 50 mg, 75 m...y at parts of the brain that control how pain is perceived. Norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors are a type of central nervous system medication that increases t...MonoSol Rx Completes Thin Film Escitalopram Oxalate Pilot Product Development
...cal products, today announced the completion of pilot product development for its thin film formulation of escitalopram oxalate, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor. Escitalopram oxalate is indicated for depression and generalized anxiety disorders and is marketed under the brand name Lexapro(R). Lexapro...European CHMP Issues Positive Opinion on Cymbalta for the Treatment of Generalised Anxiety Disorder
... for those suffering from this debilitating condition." Duloxetine, a member of a class of drugs commonly referred to as serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors,(13) is already approved to treat major depressive disorder and diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain. Duloxetine gained marketing authorisa...The genetics of fear: Study suggests specific genetic variations contribute to anxiety disorders
...r the enzyme COMT. Serotonin is a brain chemical involved in mood regulation. The serotonin transporter, which is the target of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) used to treat anxiety and depression, harbors a common polymorphism in its gene. This polymorphism can come in two different version...Researchers iron out new role for serotonin
... including alcoholism, depression, autism and obsessive-compulsive disorder. SERT is also a major target for medications like the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) used for treating depression. Thanks to a serendipitous mix-up in an animal order, Blakely and first author Ana Carnerio, Ph.D., d...Likely cause of postpartum blues and depression identified
... interleukin-1 beta. If our hypothesis holds true, lowering interleukin-1 beta levels may be a better treatment option." He notes that while serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly used for depression, work well in these women, transferring the drug to the baby during nursing can be problematic. But there'...New treatment mechanisms for schizophrenia
...akthrough in the discovery of a completely novel means of adjunct therapy for schizophrenia that is analogous to the use of SSRIs [selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors] for the treatment of depression." In the second article, Hashimoto and colleagues demonstrated that repeated administration of the N-me...Insulin's brain impact links drugs and diabetes
...ic Library of Science Biology (PLoS Biology). The psychostimulant drugs amphetamine and cocaine, as well as related medications for ADHD, block the reuptake of the neurotransmitter dopamine by dopamine transporters (DATs) and increase the level of dopamine signaling. Some of these compounds, including amph...Adolescent but not adult hamsters are more aggressive on low dose of fluoxetine
... are different. Thus, she says, "It is unwise to expect a drug to work the same in juveniles as in adults." Fluoxetine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), is the only medication approved to treat depression in children and adolescents. However, it has carried an FDA "black box" warning...High dopamine transporter levels not correlated with ADHD
...s attempt to compensate for lower dopamine levels by reducing the number of reuptake proteins. This would explain the positive correlation between transporter levels and inattention: as the number of reuptake proteins rises, the amount of dopamine would decline, leading to a higher l...Nobelist discovers antidepressant protein in mouse brain
...ate with each other by secreting messengers, such as serotonin, which bind to receptors located on the surface of receiving cells. Serotonin selective reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), medications commonly prescribed for anxiety and depression, compensate for reduction in serotonin signaling by boosting levels and...Commonly used antidepressants may also affect human immune system
...nse. They do not know yet, however, whether these SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) drugs "including the brands Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil and others" c...tional way of stimulating a T cell response." Drugs that block serotonin reuptake "likely change some of the parameters of T-cell activation, but we don't kn...REMERON(R) Now Approved in Japan for the Treatment of Depression in Adult Patients
...th a mechanism of action that is different from that of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) and serotonin-noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (SNRI). Important Safety Information About REMERON in the...Valdoxan(R) Granted Marketing Authorisation for the Treatment of Major Depressive Episodes in Europe
...g almost 6,000 adult patients with depression. The results demonstrate the superior efficacy of Valdoxan as compared with placebo, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) and serotonin noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor (SNRI) treatments and also show that: - Valdoxan has proven efficacy whateve...Northern Antibiotics Presents New Data on Novel Polymyxin Compounds at the Joint ICAAC/IDSA 2008
...ds are excreted into urine to a significant extent. This indicates that the reuptake of the NAB compounds in the proximal tubuli of the kidneys is less intense than that of colistin and polymyxin B. The extensive reuptake is regarded to be the mechanism of the nephrotoxicity of polymyxins. Thus t...European CHMP Adopts Negative Opinion on Cymbalta for the Treatment of Fibromyalgia
...h serotonin and norepinephrine/noradrenaline mediated nerve signaling in the brain and the spinal cord. Based on pre-clinical studies, duloxetine is a reuptake inhibitor of serotonin and norepinephrine/noradrenaline. Scientists believe its effect on pain perception is due to increasing the activity of seroton...US Neuropathic Pain Market Value Doubles to $5 Billion by 2018
...-1 (EpiCept/Epitome); two serotonin/norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors desvenlafaxine (Wyeth), and paroxetine ...pha-2 adrenergic receptor antagonist/norepinehrine reuptake inhibitor reboxetine (Pfizer); an opioid receptor agonist/norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor tapentadol (Ortho-McNeil); a dopamine re...AGM / EGM Postponed to July 20, 2008
...n the development of therapeutics for the treatment of diabetic neuropathic pain and HCV. XTL is developing Bicifadine, a serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, for the treatment of diabetic neuropathic pain, which is currently in a Phase 2b study. XTL has out-licensed its novel pre-clinical HCV sma...Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
... Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors ( SSRIs ) are a class of antidepressa...or 5-HT), in the synaptic gap by inhibiting its reuptake . One notable characteristic of SSRIs is that, unl...monoamine transporters in the sending cell (thus reuptake ). Depression has been linked to a lack of sti...